Ms AnnMarie Farrelly:

On the last question, it is principally by engagement through the housing and disability steering groups, the providers and the charities involved, and advocates among people with disabilities who are also members of the steering group. The key factor involves broad representation and our having an understanding. Ultimately, there is paperwork involved in identifying the housing need and encouraging and mentoring people to be in a position to complete in respect of the housing need. There is a responsibility on us, the likes of the HSE and charities involved in day-to-day work with people with a disability to mentor and have everybody understand exactly what is required.

I would say we could get better with direct consultation, however. That is something that is evolving. Through the disability steering group we are all learning a lot, particularly as we understand what is happening across the country. More direct consultation is probably needed. For example, as we make housing allocations and run tenant induction courses and that kind of thing, we learn a lot about house design and other issues through that direct engagement.

On multi-annual funding, for things such as the private house grants we already know we can spend up to 65% of last year's allocation without the 2024 allocation being known. To an extent, it is always a rolling programme as we are dealing with individual applications. It does take homeowners some time to progress, including engaging contractors and getting the work done to draw down of the grant. It is a rolling programme and we are engaging with more applications than our allocation will fund to ensure that the home owners will benefit from as much funding as has been allocated. We roll it across years in order to ensure that so that there is no gap in draw down. I will hand over to my colleagues on anything I may have missed.